Thoughts
D’var: Beha’alotcha 5774
Seven. Seven is the theme of today’s parashah. Well, one of them. Seven and love. Today’s reading covers many things, among them are the building and lighting of the menorah lamps, hammered out of solid gold with each side facing the other. It moves on to the...
D’var: Behar-Behukotai, 5775
I sat down with a man a few weeks ago. He’s a smart, ambitious man with a solid business, and he started talking to me about a major construction project which has been in the midst of some major controversy. I’m going to talk about this project, but I want to be...
Benchcraft Company
Benchcraft Company. The company that called me during a moment of weakness. That made me realize I really must stop taking people, especially those I don't know, at their word. The company that lied to me so many times over the course of a few hours spread apart over...
Faith, Family, Business: A Rant
"Faith, Family, then Business" That's the credo of many motivational speakers, company leaders, and frontmen. It is also phrased as "G-d, family, then work." It is how they tell you to prioritize your life in order to achieve success. I have to disagree, though. If...
D’var B’reshit, 5775
Professor Ido Kantor, of Bar-Ilan University, teaches such things as condensed matter physics, phase transitions, theory of neural networks, and quantum spin systems. These are all things which deal with Bereshit. From the explosion of creation of the light and dark...
Devarim, 5774
This is the text of the d'var Torah I gave for Shabbat Chazon on 8/2/14. Rabbi Levi Yitzchak says of Shabbat Chazon, the “Shabbat of Vision”, each and every one of us is granted a vision of the third temple. Both temples were destroyed on Tisha b’Av and, this year, it...